Collapsible bag frame



y 1932- w. c. HIERING 1,859,773

COLLKPSIBLE BAG FRAME Filed on. 28, 1929 ATTOR N EY Patented May 2 4, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM C. HIERING, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 J. E. MERGOTT CO., OF

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE COLLAZPSIBLE BAG FRAME This invention relates to handbags and more particularly handbags.

Heretofore there have been produced handbags provided with frames which enable the bags to be maintained open, such frames being collapsible and forming substantially a rectangle when expanded.

'While wide-opening bags of this type have been found advantageous in many respects, the expanding frame is objectionable in that when the frame is extended to form a rectangle, the side portions of the bag are distorted, with the result, that after a few openings the original shape of the bag is destroyed.

It is an object of this invention to provide a collapsible frame which will enable a wide opening of a hand bag, without in any way distorting the body portion of the bag and destroying its shape.

This and other advantages, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and exhibited in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which:

Figure 1 represents an elevational view of the bag frame.

Figure 2 represents a plan view showing the frame held in its collapsed condition by means of a clasp.

Figure 3 represents a view similar to Figure 2 showing the clasp disengaged.

Figure 4 represents a plan view of the frame in an extended condition.

Figure 5 represents an end view of the frame.

Figure 6 represents a fragmentary, partly sectional view of the adjacent, hinged and shouldered end portions of end members and 16.

Figure 7 represents a bottom'view showing the position of elements when the frame is exto a collapsible frame for tended.

Figure 8 represents a similar view showing the position of elements when the frame is collapsed.

Figure 9 represents a sectional view of the frame member.

showing details of one of the end frame mem oers.

Referring to the drawings, a frame is shown to include parallellongitudinalframe members 11 and 12 and end frame members 13, 14, 15 and 16, the'members 13 and 14 beingpivotally connected at 17 and the members 15 and 16 beingpivotally connected at 18.

- End frame members 13and 15 are pivotally 7 connected to theends of longitudinal frame member 11 by pins'19 and the end members Hand-16 are similarly pivotally connected to the member 12. Each of the frame members comprises substantially a sheet metal strip having its upper end bent over to form a channel as shown in Figure 9.

' Fixed to theupper portion of member 12 is a metal plate 20, supporting a pivot pin 21 upon which is rotatably mounted a metal 7 clasp 22, the latter. having down-extending sides adapted to engage the metal bearing surfaces 23 and 24, 011 the frame members 11 and12. I

Referring to Figure 5, it will be seen that the end frame members such as 13 and 14 are respectively provided at their upper edges with flattened lips 25 and 26 and at their lower edges with similarlips 27 and 28, the lips being apertured to receive the pivot pin 17 The structure of end members 15 and 16 is identically the same. 7 The upper edges of members 13 and 14 have the inner walls of the channel cut away to provide shoulders 29 as shown in Figure 10.

In operation, the frame may be collapsed by moving pivots 17 and 18 inwardly towards each other. The frame may be maintained in a collapsed position by moving the clasp;

Figure 10 represents a. perspective view The outward movement of the end members may be also limited by engagement of the bent end portions of the adjacent end and side members, as shown, for example, in

5 Figures 7 and 8.

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided a simple collapsible frame for a handbag which frame cannot be extended to such a degree as to distort and 1 ]destroy the shape of the body of the hand- The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention,

of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claims.

2 Having-thus describedmy invention, what I- claim as-new and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is

1. A. handbag frame comprising side members and pairs of pivotally connected end members pivoted to said side members, the

adjacentends of said end members beingpro- Vided with cooperating shoulders to prevent said, end members from assuming a position of alignment.

80 2. A handbag frame, comprising side members-and pairs of end members'pivoted to the side members, the. adjacent ends of the end members having flattened lips, one lip resting on the other lip, and one lip being depressed to accommodatethe'otherlip and provide -a shoulder 'to engage the other lip to prevent'the end me'mbers'from assuming a position of alignment.

This specification signed this 25th day of 40 Oct.,1929.

WILLIAM G. HIERING. 

